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Under the EOIS initiative, USDOL works to strengthen developing countries’ abilities to
build and institutionalize social safety net policies and programs needed to improve working
conditions and foster economic growth. Projects under this initiative aim to increase
employment among targeted groups, improve workplace safety and health, and increase access
to social insurance.
EOIS projects assume a variety of forms:
- They provide employment services and worker adjustment
services to the unemployed and workers who are about to lose their jobs, including traditionally
disenfranchised groups, such as those with few opportunities such as veterans, disabled
individuals, and women.
- Pension reform and social insurance reform projects
assist in the development of income security programs, which support the lives of workers and
retirees.
- Mine safety and occupational health and safety programs
improve working conditions and decrease workplace hazards.
- Trafficking programs address specific economic and social problem driving women to,
sometimes unknowingly, abandon their communities for dangerous and, often, illegal work.
Examples of project activities include:
- Pension Reform: Building the institutional capacity of pension
regulatory agencies in Poland, Hungary, and Slovenia to protect workers’ savings in
newly-privatized pension systems that are part of countries’ efforts to restructure their
economic systems.
- Employment Promotion: Designing integrated employment and training
services for unemployed workers to facilitate their integration into local labor markets in the
Caribbean, Nigeria, Tanzania, Ukraine, Pakistan, and the Philippines.
- Improving Mine Safety and Health: The coalmines of Ukraine are known
as some of the most dangerous in the world. With the support of the Mine Safety and Health
Administration, ILAB is working to improve the conditions in Ukrainian mines through the
installation of safety equipment and by supplying training in mine safety and health.
- Transitioning Military Veterans to Civilian Employment: With the
largest military force in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Government of Nigeria is challenged to find
employment for soldiers leaving military service. In collaboration with the U.S. Department of
Defense and DOL’s Veterans Employment and Training Administration, ILAB is assisting the
Nigerian Government to provide more effective job placement and training services to ex-military
personnel.
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